The beamer class is probably the most advanced way to produce slides with LaTeX. It outputs well laid-out pdf slides, ready to be shown with pride alongside their Keynote equivalent (not to mention the crappy, pixelated thingies that come out of PowerPoint).
The short screencast below shows Inkscape, a very cool drawing program with a GTK interface, running natively (i.e. without X11) on Mac OS X. There already are plenty of videos of The Gimp running natively on OS X. It is in the order of things that the port of GTK to OS X is first tested on The Gimp since GTK is the “Gimp ToolKit”. However it is nice to see other programs can use this port too, in particular such a complex application as Inkscape. In addition, Inskcape is written in C++ and uses GTKmm and Cairomm instead of directly GTK and Cairo so that’s one more layer to get working right.
TextMate has been my text editor of choice for a while. Even if its interface is as simple as it can be (it does not even have a toolbar!) it is very powerful behind the scene, in part due to numerous “bundles”. One of them brings love, communication and share between TextMate and iTerm, a terminal application with tabs, bookmarks and many other nifty features. The iTerm bundle is quite sparse in itself but it has a little gem in it, called Paste Selection. The command grabs the text currently selected in TextMate, sends it -through an AppleScript- to the last used iTerm window/tab and paste it at the prompt there.
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